Newark's Rose Committee plans sale

The Rose Capital Committee of Newark's annual Mother's Day Rose Sale goes into full swing on April 1.

For seven years, school children in Newark have been selling miniature rose bushes for Mother's Day to benefit the children of Newark and support numerous flower gardens planted all around Newark.

Now that the dust has settled around school construction, the Rose Committee will be sponsoring over $3,000 for flower gardens at Lincoln, Kelley and Perkins schools. Plans are underway now to have the children in these three schools participate in the planning of these new flower gardens.

Funds from the 2002 Mother's Day Rose Sale will also be used to support the annual Newark Rose Court Essay contest in which students from the village's schools are awarded large shrub rose plants, framed recognition certificates and scholarships.

Students will be bringing flyers home with details about the sale, but in order to reserve your flowers, all orders this year need to be phoned or e-mailed in to the Mother's Day Rose Sale order center. Everyone in the Newark community will now be able to order roses, mums and begonias at their convenience anytime between April 1 and April 26.

Tickets are for a June double-header of the Wayne County Raptors collegiate baseball team will be given free with each order of flowers. When ordering, please leave your name, address and phone number and the number of orders of each plant you would like. Each flower order is $5. Miniature Roses come one plant to an order, Mums come two per order, and Begonias come as twelve potting plants per order.

Phone your orders to: 331.0164 or e-mail:

roses_2002_ newark@yahoo.com

You may pick up your flowers at the Arcadia Reformed Church on Woodlane on:

Friday, May 10, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. or Saturday, May ll, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

New members to the Rose Committee are always welcome. If you'd like to help with the Mother's Day annual fundraiser or with planting or maintaining any of the gardens the Rose Committee has created around the village, please call or e-mail your message to the order center.

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